I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is – this thing that happens to everyone, so I’ve heard.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I don’t do research. I never have.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

This guy Clubber Lang, I’ve been him all my life. He’s mean and hungry just like me.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.